On "blood quantum", indigenous identity, and federally recognised tribes in the U.S.A. https://benhr.xyz/2024/06/07/on-blood-quantum.html
A company that had built its name on celebrating knowledge and expertise was now at the mercy of machines that could not discern the difference between information and wisdom or between factual text and text that mimicked the patterns of factual-sounding writing.
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/wtf-quora-how-a-platform-eats-itself
The friendly, sad bloke at the cafe
"“Playing with conventions, literary or social, taking them apart and exposing them as scaffolding that hides rather than reveals truths can be threatening to those who think they know exactly how the world is supposed to turn. The Trilogy repositions the reader. It forces her to see the world differently. That’s the magic.”"
"Remembering Paul Auster lithub.com
Reader: lithub.com
Literary Hub https://lithub.com/remembering-paul-auster
https://lithub.com/remembering-paul-auster https://micro.blog/bookmarks/6779666 https://lithub.com/remembering-paul-auster
“a device that dispenses physical “attention receipts” that list exactly how much time you’ve spent watching YouTube videos”
.jpg Instagram is testing “ad breaks” that force you to stop and look at an ad for a period of time before you can continue scrolling. The internet’s transformation into a pay to play game continues apace.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170682/instagram-unskippable-ads-test
“A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader."
Attention cyberloafers
Bit harsh on Whitlam
Stunning photo essay about Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens
"At the turn of the 21st century, corrugated cardboard accounted for just fifteen percent of the U.S. recycling stream. Today, it’s nearly half."
"World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination placesjournal.org
Archiving...
Image credit Title: Piles of recycling waiting to be sorted Creator: World Resources Institute Date: 2019 Type: Colour digital photo Rights: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
https://placesjournal.org/article/social-history-of-the-cardboard-box/?__s=yxo2kv41x05ers9x0xt1&utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Your+Syllabus+This+Week https://placesjournal.org/article/social-history-of-the-cardboard-box/?__s=yxo2kv41x05ers9x0xt1&utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Your+Syllabus+This+Week https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldresourcesinstitute/49082060493/in/album-72157711828806088/
‘It’s also no coincidence that the biggest business case for these systems is to help communication in the corporate world: a semantic zone drained of novelty.’ Do chatbots dream of AI poetry?
Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling https://benhr.xyz/2024/05/24/utopian-realism-a.html
Why doesn’t Hollywood make more mass extinction films?
https://atmos.earth/why-doesnt-hollywood-make-more-mass-extinction-films
“The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.” The crisis in French identity since De Gaulle https://benhr.xyz/2024/05/21/the-desire-of.html
A study of 84 countries found 60 multinationals account for more than half of the world’s plastic pollution. Six companies alone are responsible for 13%.
"One thing I do have confidence in is my feeling" https://benhr.xyz/2024/05/16/one-thing-i.html
In what year was the first emoji-like character set developed? Your guess is almost certainly wrong.
Emoji History: The Missing Years - Get Info
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/05/10/emoji-history-the-missing-years/